When James Denver Alyea was born on 10 February 1929, in Williamsburg, Wayne, Indiana, United States, his father, Harold Raymond Alyea, was 29 and his mother, Thelma Irene Bryan, was 23. He lived in Williamsburg, Greene Township, Wayne, Indiana Territory, United States in 1940. He died on 16 December 2012, in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Willow Grove Cemetery, Fountain City, Wayne, Indiana, United States.